Spirits of Agony Aljea and Helphas
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Age: Indeterminably all together, right now 2296/ 1996
Gender: Both Female
Personality: Aljea: Very withdrawn and secretive, she lets few people near her other than her servant and fake child, Helphas. She is compassionate, but self-loathing. Once her greatest wish was to have a child of her own, now her greatest wish is to truly die.
Helphas: Since she was born of Aljea's spirit, Helphas gains Aljea's compassionate personality, but little else. She is more of a puppet feeding off Aljea's emotions, since she is in a sense, Aljea. She is more outspoken, often speaking for her mother when she is around others, since Aljea has a hard time doing it herself. She is willing to do anything for Aljea and readily awaits when she will return to her 'mothers' spirit to be born again with her. Despite having a humanoid body and hair, Helphas does not have a face, but functions like she does.
Likes: Aljea: Children (Which is pretty much everyone to her), Happiness, Helphas
Helphas: Aljea, and what Aljea likes
Dislikes: Aljea: Herself, Fighting, Pain, Sadness, Touching
Helphas: Aljea being hurt
Biography: Aljea, though at times mistaken for a goddess, is actually a spirit born from the collective suffering of the first ancestors of human when they were slowly dying out. Her first memories were opening her eyes to such indescribable pain she sweated blood. She felt everything they felt, the starvation, the wounds. She was in constant agony until they all finally died out. She thought she was free, but it was not so. Every step she took. Every inhale of air. Every blink of the eyes. Like needles digging through her flesh to get to her soul. It didn't take long before Aljea lost her will to live and let her body rot into nothingness in a half-mad bid for peace.
However, even her death couldn't stop her pain. Once again she woke up in excruciating pain, lying in the blood of the fatally wounded but alive. Again and again she would die. Never gaining that peace that she fervently sought. As long as there was agony in the world, she could not actually die, but disappear for a few years. It was hell. Every person tortured, every horrible death, she felt it all. Those seemingly short moments of happiness reprieve by her death were drowned out by the pain she felt upon awakening. It almost drove her over the edge into complete maddness.
It was during another one of her 'rebirths' in pain, that she met a small little girl named Helphas. The human girl too, was born in a place of pain and suffering. Taking to the girl almost immediately, Aljea spent most of her time watching over Helphas. She took care of her like she would her own child, and at times, thought of her as such. She would brave the constant pain for this young girl. She would continue to take care of the young girl until she grew old and past. That was Aljea's will to live. Even that was taken from her.
It was an accident spawning from a child's need for comfort, and a mothers compliance to give it. Halphas had reached out for Aljea's hand and Aljea held it, for the first time physically touching a human. It was a mistake. All the pain that Aljea felt pouring into Halphas' body, the shock causing a heart attack and dropping the girl dead almost instantly. Aljea mourned for years, absently releasing to building pain in her body in a wave that affected people in a radius that almost encompassed half of the world. It caused heart attacks, headaches, seizures, and fainting in those most susceptible to her influence caused mass hysteria in certain places. Seeing the pain she felt as punishment for the death of Helphas, Aljea stopped her attempts at death and secluded herself in a pit in the gods realm to be alone. She could never forgive herself for her mistake. This was the start of when her eyes bled until she covered them with a white cloth that almost immediately turned red.
During her time in her seclusion a young god named Vincent, who happened down into the pit. Though at first she didn't appreciate his company, she began asking him questions about the other gods and what they were doing. At first he was... well kind of a p***k, even to his senior at the time, but he would answer her questions in a roundabout way. When she told him why she secluded herself, he gave her a lecture about her stupidity and her mistake. It was not long until Aljea got used to Vincent's way of speaking and actually began enjoying his company. It was during one of his wars that her spirit broke and she died once again, but she did not tell him that. When Vincent was cursed and banished Aljea mourned for him and once again grew lonely. She created a humanoid girl as her companion from her energy, and named her Helphas, giving her the small head ribbon that the human Helphas would always wear. She however avoided creating a face for Helphas, because the only one she can remember is the human Helphas' look of pain and terror.
Abilities: -Pain Transfer: Aljea can transfer pain through touch, or take it away. Her own pain does not lessen when she transfers it, but it will increase when she takes it. It took her a long time to be able to control this ability to the point where she could numb her constant pain, but not be rid of it. She still has an aversion to touch from the incident with human Helphas, but can easily touch her created Helphas.
-Pulse: Aljea can release her bottled up pain in a large pulse. It can cause headaches, heart attacks, seizures, fainting, and stomach pains. Stomach pain my cause vomiting.
-Energy Manipulation: She uses this ability to keep Helphas' body alive. If she ever tires or dies the energy returns to her.
-Pain Immune: Helphas is immune to pain, and can therefore be touched by Aljea and block attacks aimed at Aljea without feeling it. Despite this she can be decapitated or obliterated. Her energy just goes back to Aljea.
Weaknesses:
-Feels the pain she gives out
-Not very outspoken
-A self-imposed loner
-Dislikes causing others pain
Strengths:
- Even with high pain tolerance, very few people can withstand her output beyond the stronger gods.
Extra?:
-She secretly considers Vincent a friend and wants him to be able to return so that she can talk with him again.
-She is a little jealous of the gods who have children and families of their own, because she knows she could never have one.
-She has memories of all her past lives, so even though she is now younger than most gods, her true age is much older.
-She cannot see through her eye covering because it is so bloody, so she uses Helphas as her eyes, and mostly recognizes people from voice
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